Band 3

Applicants are placed in to Band 3 if they meet at least two of the following criteria:

• The Council makes a significant health and housing award. See Part VIII for a definition of the award.;

• The applicant needs larger accommodation because they have been approved as a foster carer (confirmed by Children’s Social Care), there are children waiting to be placed with them, but there is no bedroom for the foster child according to our bedroom standard;

• The Council is satisfied that the applicant is living in a property subject to a prohibition order or which has a category 1 hazard under the Housing Health and Safety Rating System in Part I of the Housing Act 2004, other than for crowding and space, which cannot be remedied. The Council’s Housing Standards Team will try to remedy hazards through enforcement action wherever possible and an application will only go into this band if the hazard(s) cannot be remedied;

• The Council accepts that the applicant is homeless or threatened with homelessness, has a priority need under the homelessness legislation, but considers that they have become homeless intentionally;

• The Council accepts that the applicant is homeless or threatened with homelessness, but has no priority need under the homelessness legislation;

• The applicant is owed the reduced accommodation duty under Section 193C (4) of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017;

• The applicant has fewer bedrooms than their household requires according to our housing needs register bedroom standard;

• The Council has received detailed information from social services, the police or other relevant agencies, and is satisfied that the applicant needs to move on serious social or welfare grounds, and that their difficulties cannot be adequately resolved in their current accommodation.

· A crowding and space assessment (under the Housing Health and Safety Rating System in Part I of the Housing Act 2004) for the applicant’s home has identified a category 1 hazard due to a lack of one bedroom. This must not be due to any deliberate or unnecessary overcrowding.